Peasants and Samurai and Ronin (and Orks!?)

I finished these up a week or so back - and submitted them to the Painting Challenge - but when I went looking for them to refer back to in a post I'm working on now, I couldn't find them.... So I either totally forgot to post them or somehow inadvertently deleted them!? I'm guessing the former - as the post didn't look finished in the document where I usually draft these things... I wonder if I counted them toward the annual totals - maybe that's why I was feeling a bit behind the last few days!? So I MAY have painted 1017 28mm figures last year...?

A few more items for my various Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai Buntai.

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version):

Some peasants armed with sharpened bamboo/improvised spears from Black Hat Miniatures. I had it in mind that I’d use these for a Peasant Buntai… I think, ultimately, I’d need a whole bunch more to field a Peasant Buntai…

Their backsides.

I could pad out the Peasant Buntai with some hired Ronin – unfortunately to have seven of them I’d need to have about 20+ peasants.

For a 150 point Buntai – which is what we’ve been using lately and will use for the 10^th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend in Feburary - I’d need about 6-12 peasants –depending on whether I classed those “spears” as “Yumi” (spears) or “improvised Weapons”

Some Samurai with nodachi (great sword) from Black Hat Miniatures. They could just as easily be used as “ronin” – in fact I’d planned on using some of these (and the ones below) as ronin to pad out a possible Peasant Buntai.

Their backsides.

More Samurai with yuni (bow) – also from Black Hat Miniatures.

Their backsides.

STILL more Samurai Black Hat Miniatures

Their backsides.

A sole Samurai from AEG painted in Lion Clan Colours.




These two are ones that I really did paint recently - and, I think, the only things I've painted since the New Year....

PIC
A pair of old skewl Orks  from Games Workshop. (They are © and ™ Games Workshop and painted by myself and posted here entirely without their permission). I picked up a bunch of Fantasy Flight Games 40K Role-Playing Games (Only War and Rogue Trader) over the last bit. I picked up these lads asI figured they'd make good baddies in either campaign.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

An update on the plans for the 10^th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend in Feburary! Then maybe some more newly painted stuff by the end of the week.